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Celebrating 5 Years Writing for the Utility and Telecommunication Industries!

December 8, 2015 By: Keith Freeman

SSP has been writing for the utility and telecommunication industries for 5 years! We take a quick moment to reflect on this achievement and look at what's to be in…

Asset Searches in ArcGIS Online and Portal

December 7, 2015 By: Skye Perry

Esri has great tools for creating geocoding services that can be used for asset searches in ArcGIS Online and Portal. But we needed a way to automatically recreate the geocode…

Introducing the Esri 4.0 JavaScript API

December 6, 2015 By: Josh King

The new Esri 4.0 JavaScript API is shipping soon. Learn about some of the new capabilities this API has to offer.

Creating Circuits on Transmit/Receive Fiber Paths in GIS

December 3, 2015 By: John Coleman Matthew Stuart

Over the last couple of years, we've talked a lot about an SSP client that has a very complex Telecom network. Most recently,this client identified a need to associate two…

Custom ArcGIS Online Basemaps and the Magic Beans

November 16, 2015 By: Brian Higgins

Post summarizing ArcGIS Online backgrounds and the creation of custom backgrounds.

SSP Announces a New Practice: GIS Pipeline Practice

November 10, 2015 By: Clarke Wiley

Clarke Wiley, Director of Pipeline, is pleased to announce a move to a great organization and the addition of a pipeline practice at SSP Innovations.

OOPS! Fixing an ArcGIS Error

November 6, 2015 By: Brian Higgins

Summary of the “Five Options of Fixing Oops” and best management practices to minimize their impact.

How to Become a Superstar for Your Utility in 2 Weeks!

October 20, 2015 By: Keith Freeman

Don't miss Esri & SSP's Free Webinar on How to Become a Superstar for Your Utility in 2 Weeks!

ArcGIS Online, the Cloud, and the Wardrobe

October 13, 2015 By: Brian Higgins

Blog post comparing the Cloud to a C.S. Lewis fantasy novel? This post summarizes a different infrastructure location in a recent ArcGIS Online deployment.

GIS to MAXIMO Enhancements – Increasing Performance by 70,000% the SSP Way

September 30, 2015 | By: SSP Innovations

Overview on one of SSP's latest projects in which features significant performance improvements to a clients GIS to MAXIMO integration.

Permanently Track Your CU’s in GIS After Posting

September 29, 2015 By: Konstantin Korchakov

In this month's post, I go over a recent implementation of compatible units (CU) tracking we carried out on one of our projects.

Smallworld Data Migration

September 28, 2015 By: Ed Blair, Blair Services, Guest Author

If you’ve got a Smallworld GIS (SWGIS) database and you’re contemplating moving to ArcGIS, well, first of all, good choice! We think you’ll find the quality and breadth of technology…